This is awesome!
I haven't seen Lone Lisp before. Is it meant to be like a Symbolics Lisp Machine, where the entire userspace is lisp?
I really like using generators in typescript. They make a lot of problems much easier.
I haven't seen Lone Lisp before. Is it meant to be like a Symbolics Lisp Machine, where the entire userspace is lisp?
I really like using generators in typescript. They make a lot of problems much easier.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38126052
I'm doing some plumbing work on lone right now, then I'll start designing the iterator protocol. Gotta fix some usability details in the generators to make them more pleasant to use but I'm really proud of the fact that they even work at all. I'll read about typescript generators and try to understand what makes them great to use.
This article sums it up pretty well: https://medium.com/@bhagyarana80/why-async-generators-were-t...
In nodejs, all streams are async iterables, so you can iterate over them. Really nice for handling stuff like connections to a server, or messages on a socket.
I’ve use generators to code ui “sagas”. You await async events like clicks etc, and yield the appropriate state updates. A sub-dialog can be implemented as a separate generator, and the main dialog generator can open it by with the yield* syntax to iterate over and pass on all the events until the generator returns. The return value would be the result of the dialog.
Super nifty.
A suggestion to the website index, could you add dates to the entries? I find the numbered list confusing as its not entirely clear in what order they are listed.